Patrick Charles Bentley Blair (18 July 1891 – 6 July 1915) was a Scottish rugby union player.

Biography

Blair was born in

Wanlockhead Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands. It is Scotland's highest village, at an elevation of ar ...

, Dumfriesshire, the son of Rev. Charles Patrick Blair and Jeanie Bogle Smith Blair. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he played rugby and field hockey, and King's College, Cambridge. where he played for the King's College team and

Cambridge University RFC The Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club, sometimes abbreviated "CURUFC", is the rugby union club of the University of Cambridge. The team plays Oxford University RFC in the annual Varsity Match at Twickenham Stadium every December. ...

. Blair was capped five times for in 1912–13, against , , , and . After earning a first-class degree at Cambridge, Blair joined the Egyptian Civil Service's Finance Department. After World War I began, he returned to Cambridge for military training. He was commissioned into the

Rifle Brigade The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle ...

in March 1915. Four months later, he was killed by a shell in

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, Flanders. He is buried in the Talana Farm Cemetery.

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"An entire team wiped out by the Great War"
'' The Scotsman'', 6 November 2009 1891 births 1915 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I People educated at Fettes College Rifle Brigade officers Rugby union players from Dumfries and Galloway Scotland international rugby union players Scottish rugby union players Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players {{UK-army-bio-stub